Gap Quiz

[StevieG]

The gap drive?

[IrrationalSanity]

SOD/CMOS datacores?

[Savor Dam]

Sorry, neither is correct.

[StevieG]

CAT?

[Savor Dam]

Correct!

Intertech first gained fame creating a microbe that digested plastics (sounds quite useful, indeed), then became a highly profitable company by producing a catecholamine inhibitor, a sedative that became popularly known as "cat".

Your question, Stevie.

[Hunchback Jack]

But since that requires effort in itself, I don't feel guilty about doing that.

Haha, yeah, I usually only answer the ones I know...it's very rare that I can be bothered to hunt for an answer. Asking questions however is much more difficult, so there I will usually either check out dissections, or grab a random book and pick something random.

--A

I will grab a random book to ask a question, but refer to nothing but my memory to answer. Meedless to say, I haven't needed to ask a question very often.

HBJ

[StevieG]

I will grab a random book to ask a question, but refer to nothing but my memory to answer. Meedless to say, I haven't needed to ask a question very often.

Ha! Well, in this last question, I just threw half educated guesses out there - this time I didn't look it up. Was a little surprised I was correct.

I will be back with a question soon.

[StevieG]

What does SOD-CMOS stand for?

[IrrationalSanity]

Since it was my original (and wrong) answer to the last question...

Silicon on Diamond Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor.

[StevieG]

Correct!

Over to you IR.

[IrrationalSanity]

Thanks!

How did Warden obey, yet circumvent, Holt's order to give control of Angus to Nick?

[Avatar]

By putting in further codes that would release him?

--A

[IrrationalSanity]

By putting in further codes that would release him?

--A

Close, but not quite. I'll say you're half right, but I won't tell you which half (yet...)

[Avatar]

By embedding those codes inside the very code that gave Nick control?

--A

[IrrationalSanity]

That was the part you had right. The question is, what did those codes actually do.

[Avatar]

Told him to turn himself over to Morn when he had the chance?

--A

[IrrationalSanity]

Told him to turn himself over to Morn when he had the chance?

--A

Correct!



More specifically,

The plain text of the message was a command using his access code/name and priority word to show the message itself to Nick. The assumption, proven correct, was that Nick would infer Angus was a cyborg, and he now had the master key to him.

The code embedded in the border was kind like the contract language in "The Santa Clause" - it took binding effect as well, and basically told him to also show the order to Morn at his earliest convenience.

Your question.

[Savor Dam]

Nitpick: the embedded machine language told Angus to show the message to Davies.

[IrrationalSanity]

Nitpick: the embedded machine language told Angus to show the message to Davies.

Fair enough. Do you want the next question?

[Savor Dam]

Thank you for the offer, but Av's answer was deemed correct; it's his place to pose the next question.

If I wanted to have to develop a new question, I would have put an answer out there when the question was still open, not waited for others to answer...then be too OCD to resist commenting on a minor discrepancy.